I haven't seen this film, and so can not comment on it - but to all who lump atheists with communists, nazis, hedonists, and
every other debased human quality, you are wrong.
Not exact matches
It created debt that was based on fraud, leverage, and
other non-productive uses of capital: it
debased the value of money.
Practicing Christianity has for African - Americans meant turning the
other cheek, walking in humility, and enduring cruel and
debasing treatment.
But the name calling and
debasing of
others for what they believe is ridiculous.
A loveless act is one that is «coercive,
debasing to
others» sensitivities, utterly impersonal, [or] obsessed solely by physical gratification.»
How sad that rather than face their own truth with courage, they
debase and hurt innocent people and lie to themselves and
others.
They just don't want to
debase it by using it as a cheaper alternative to seeing a movie, or (for boys) as a way of asserting machismo in the absence of positive male role models, or (for girls) as a desperate ploy to hold on to a boyfriend — or any of the
other sad, dead — end abuses of sex that become common whenever a society sheds its «repressed Victorianism.»
«Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly
debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men; — this evil custom I had been as forward in as
others, and this I was now called out of and required to cease from.
This «
othering» takes various facets, including the «
othering» through difference, difference in terms of local and external culture, difference in terms of acceptable and unacceptable food and drink, and difference in terms of
debased sexual attitudes.
One of these alternatives is burdensome but praiseworthy, the
other is
debasing and miserable» (Contra Julianum, 5:62).
A truly awful «film» that does nothing for the artform
other than
debase it.
There is something sad and yet authentic about her lack of connection with
others and in how Lacy's sincere military man is able to break down her defenses, despite her obsessive need to
debase his political and religious beliefs (Republican and Christian).
And I won't
debase the
other automakers by mentioning them in this story.
It's understandable that people who labour under this delusion don't worry too much when the practice of essay writing or presentation or
other methodologies of the disciplines taught is being
debased.
I see bored cows oblivious to each
other, blasé to the passing traffic, but none of the 22 million hogs Danish farmers produce each year, that we British then buy in supermarkets and
debase with brown sauce.
At any rate, I wouldn't
debase Lab Zero to the level of
other indie frauds.
And he's not begging for cash out of one side of his mouth while gleefully
debasing homosexuals out the
other.
As
others have noted, PhDs are a
debased currency these days.